Digital Agencies

Leading digital agencies need to keep up to date with the latest trends and tool sets to ensure your clients get the best results can be a challenge when you are busy managing the day to day demand from clients.

Using 51Degrees you can adapt online content to maximise the potential of online conversions and steer the end user purchase path.

Plugin us into yours and your clients’ web platforms and see a more granular level of detail about the devices used for clients site.

CMS

51Degrees provides the fastest and most accurate device information, including 217 device properties such as retail price, vendor, device age, screen size and more to allow more granular analytics and better content optimisation

APIs

Property Dictionary

Browse the full list of properties available in 51Degrees device detection solutions. Find out what values are supported in the Lite, Premium and Enterprise data sets, including full descriptions and advice on how they can be used.

Blog

Multi Stage Approach to Apple iOS Device Detection

As you may already know, with the release of iOS 12.2, Apple removed some vital information which allowed device detection solutions to accurately identify Apple devices. You can read more about what changed here.

Given the popularity of iPhones and iPads, and the importance of being able to efficiently and accurately identify the types of devices accessing your website, we have been hard at work identifying an enduring solution.

Stage One

At the end of April, we released the first of a multi-stage solution to customers. In parallel, we released an open source project to identify the GPU model of Apple devices running on iOS 12.2 and higher. These enhancements form part of a patent application and are documented here.

The solution involves analysing the differences in how a complex image is displayed on a webpage (hidden to users). The subtle differences allow us to determine the GPU which, when combined with other device properties, allows us to accurately identify the Apple device model, or substantially narrow the possibilities.

Currently the first phase enables detection of many iPad and iPhone models. However configuration such as zoom mode, overlooked by many competing solutions, will be addressed in the next stage. At the time of writing the following groups may be returned.

Stage Two

At the heart of the design objective is the requirement to minimise the possibility of Apple disabling the solution again in future versions of iOS. As such, information that Apple could manipulate to break the solution, such as the screen’s colour gamut, has not been relied upon.

The next update will be made in Q2 2019 where we expect to identify all makes and models of iPhone with both the current and future versions of iOS.

You can read more about the technical details of the solution in our blog.